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2 Samuel 7:8
English Standard Version
2 Samuel 7:8
English Standard Version
8 Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, (A)I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince[a] over my people Israel.
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Psalm 78:70-71
English Standard Version
Psalm 78:70-71
English Standard Version
70 He (A)chose David his servant
and took him from the sheepfolds;
71 from (B)following the nursing ewes he brought him
to (C)shepherd Jacob his people,
Israel his (D)inheritance.
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